Politics & Government News

11:28 AM on Wednesday, September 10

A former Justice Department attorney accused of hurling a sandwich at a federal agent in the nation’s capital has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge

11:24 AM on Wednesday, September 10

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is calling on FIFA to make World Cup tickets more affordable for New Yorkers

11:18 AM on Wednesday, September 10

President Donald Trump's administration is appealing a ruling blocking him from immediately firing Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook as he seeks more control over the traditionally independent board

11:04 AM on Wednesday, September 10

A professor at Texas A&M University has been fired and others were removed from their positions after a video surfaced in which a student confronted the instructor over her teaching of issues related to gender identity in a class on children’s literature

10:36 AM on Wednesday, September 10

President Donald Trump has portrayed his federal law enforcement surge in Washington as a crime-fighting effort

10:29 AM on Wednesday, September 10

More than 40% of arrests in Trump's D.C. law enforcement surge are immigration related, AP analysis finds

10:00 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Three fired FBI officials have sued to get their jobs back, calling their terminations part of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who caved to political pressure from the Trump administration

9:59 AM on Wednesday, September 10

3 fired FBI senior officials sue the Trump administration over terminations they call acts of political retribution

9:25 AM on Wednesday, September 10

9:20 AM on Wednesday, September 10

6:55 AM on Wednesday, September 10

When Maria Pires was adopted from Brazil as a child, she believed she was officially an American

6:51 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Labor unions representing educators and school employees are suing President Donald Trump's administration over its immigration crackdown

5:38 AM on Wednesday, September 10

President Donald Trump’s emergency order over Washington, D

5:13 AM on Wednesday, September 10

1:57 AM on Wednesday, September 10

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza

12:34 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Protesters have blocked roads and set fires in Paris and across France, clashing with police in a bid to pressure President Emmanuel Macron

11:50 PM on Tuesday, September 9

Qatari security forces and emergency fire personnel have surrounded the site of an Israeli attack on Hamas’ political leaders who had gathered in the capital of the energy-rich Middle East country to consider a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip

10:20 PM on Tuesday, September 9

Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down

9:09 PM on Tuesday, September 9

Soldiers in Nepal’s capital have ordered people to stay home after the military came out in force overnight to halt two days of deadly unrest that prompted the government’s collapse as protesters set buildings on fire

1:54 PM on Tuesday, September 9

After the detention of more than 300 South Korean workers in an immigration raid in Georgia, a charter plane has arrived in Atlanta to bring them home